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Evans made a third tour to Australia in 1954 / 55.

He missed the first Test, after failing to recover from sunstroke.

His deputy, Keith Andrew, came into the team to make his Test debut.

Evans returned to the team for the second Test, but fared poorly with the bat scoring three and four.

In the third Test at Melbourne he added some useful runs, in the first innings he scored 20 in a 54-run sixth wicket stand with Colin Cowdrey, in the second he added 22.

He took five catches in the match including a leg-side one to dismiss Neil Harvey which began Australia's collapse from 77 / 2 to 111 all out.

Neville Cardus described the catch: " Harvey flicked the seventh ball of the morning ( from Tyson ) round the corner and this time Evans dived full length to the right, clutching the ball in his out-stretched glove ".

In the fourth Test Evans made his highest score of the series, an innings of 37 in 36 minutes, sharing a 51-run partnership with Trevor Bailey.

After Australia were dismissed for 111 in their second innings ( for the second successive match ), it set England a target of 94 to win the match.

Evans came to the wicket with only four needed and with only one needed he scored a boundary that won the match and retained the Ashes.

The fifth and final Test was disrupted by heavy rain in New South Wales which had also led to the Hunter Valley floods.

The match was drawn after no play was possible until the fourth day, Evans scored 10 in England's innings and took two catches.